Leadership In The Habad Movement

Author : Mark Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028552433

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Leadership in the HaBaD Movement by Mark Avrum Ehrlich Pdf

Leadership issues are subject to much discussion and interest yet too little is known of their internal dynamics. Leadership and succession of authority has been a constant theme in Jewish literature and life from biblical days until today. The present work studies questions relating to authority in general and hasidic authority in particular. It uses the various HaBaD hasidic dynasties as a case study to illustrate how authority was transferred from one generation to another and how a leader emerges as a leader despite opposition. The rise to eminence of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the third major subject discussed therein. He is the focus of careful analysis. Through such illustrations, leadership characteristics peculiar to that movement as well as general leadership theory are better understood. In this work, leadership criteria are analyzed and discussed to properly ascertain what brought one person to a position of supreme leadership and what brought another to become a subordinate.

Author : Mark Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1223286853

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Leadership in the HaBaD Movement by Mark Avrum Ehrlich Pdf

Author : Avrum M. Ehrlich
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 088125780X

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The Messiah of Brooklyn by Avrum M. Ehrlich Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004193550

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Pietism and Community in Europe and North America, 1650-1850 by Anonim Pdf

Pietist movements challenged traditional forms of religious community, group formation, and ecclesiology. Where many older accounts have emphasized the individual and subjective nature of Pietists to the exclusion of community, one of the hallmarks of Pietism has been the creation of groups and experimentation with new forms of religious association and sociality. The essays presented here reflect the diverse ways in which Pietists struggled with the tension between the separation from the “world” and the formation of new communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Europe and North America. Presenting a range of methodological perspectives, the authors explore the processes of community formation, the function of communicative networks, and the diversity of Pietist communities within the context of early modern religious and cultural history.

Author : Michael Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135941505

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Reader's Guide to Judaism by Michael Terry Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.

Author : Maya Balakirsky Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521191630

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The Visual Culture of Chabad by Maya Balakirsky Katz Pdf

This book is the first full-length study of a complex visual tradition associated with the Hasidic movement of Chabad.

Author : Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458733

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Jewish Mysticism by Marvin A. Sweeney Pdf

Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.

Author : Timothy L. Hall
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438108063

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American Religious Leaders by Timothy L. Hall Pdf

Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.

Author : Samuel Heilman,Menachem Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691154428

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The Rebbe by Samuel Heilman,Menachem Friedman Pdf

A biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson that discusses his childhood in Russia, education in Germany and Paris, messianic conviction, religious leadership, legacy, and other related topics.

Author : Justin Jaron Lewis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773583047

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Imagining Holiness by Justin Jaron Lewis Pdf

In Imagining Holiness Justin Lewis offers a radical reappraisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into question received notions of authenticity. He focuses his study on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early twentieth century - primarily the work of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim Michelson - and the literary and historical dynamics of its emergence, posing questions about its place in Hasidic society, the attitude of the Hasidim towards this literature, and orality in Hasidic tradition as manifested in these Hasidic books. Berger and Michelson wrote in the decade before the First World War, a time of loss and decline for Hasidism. Their books resisted modernity and positioned Hasidism as authentic Judaism but also reflected modern literary trends, expressed tensions within Hasidism itself, and depicted struggles between the soul and body.

Author : Saul Silas Fathi
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798891004665

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Gods and Religions by Saul Silas Fathi Pdf

Author : Fran Markowitz,Stephen Sharot,Moshe Shokeid
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803274129

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Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel by Fran Markowitz,Stephen Sharot,Moshe Shokeid Pdf

Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod’s groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel’s underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change. Drawing from Weingrod’s perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel’s complex ethnoscape.

Author : David Berger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786949899

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The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference by David Berger Pdf

This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.

Author : David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202440

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Hasidism by David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński Pdf

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Today, Hasidism is witnessing a remarkable renaissance around the world. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. Written by an international team of scholars, its unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231146319

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Open Secret by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his promotion of a mystical consciousness that undermines all discrimination. For Schneerson, the ploy of secrecy is crucial to the dissemination of the messianic secret. To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated--an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. At its deepest level, Schneerson's eschatological orientation discerned that a spiritual master, if he be true, must dispose of the mask of mastery. Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy, and Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson articulates Schneerson's rich theology and profound philosophy, concentrating on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity, and atemporal temporality.